Theses and Dissertations

Online Sources

While University Microfilms International (UMI), a division of ProQuest, continues to archive, sell, and provide fee-based access to theses and dissertations, an increasing number of higher education institutions are providing online access to theses and dissertations completed by students, in pdf format. In addition, many electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) are made available to web crawlers to show up in search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing.

The Library provides access to three ProQuest databases:

Dissertations & Theses Global (ProQuest) Comprehensive index of doctoral dissertations and some master's theses from most North American and many European colleges and universities. Full text is available for most of those submitted after 1996 and for many before that.

CINAHL Research in nursing, allied health, biomedicine, and healthcare. To find dissertations in select "Doctoral Dissertations" in the "Publication Type" limit.

Additional Sources:

ETD Center - OhioLINKFull-text electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) from several universities and colleges across Ohio have been deposited in the Center, which makes the ETDs freely available to all. You can search by subject (e.g. occupational therapy) or granting university.

Worldwide ETD Index A global index of freely available electronic theses and dissertations, provided by major ETD collections around the world. This index lets you search for information about each ETD (“metadata,” including authors, titles, and abstracts). It does not search the full text of the ETDs.

Open thesis Aa free repository of theses, dissertations, and other academic documents from around the world.

If the Library received a single copy of a thesis, it is stored in the College Archives. These theses are available for in-library use (reading, copying, scanning). Please contact Bridget Bower, College Archivist, to schedule access to these materials. All second copies of submitted theses are available for circulation.

Citation Styles

The IC Library has copies of style manuals that provide examples and instructions for creating and formatting citations for works used in your research. Course instructors will indicate the preferred style on the course syllabus. Regardless of the style used, it is important to be consistent throughout the bibliography. See also our Citation Styles Guides.